OpenWRT 14.07 RC1 Supports Native IPv6, Procd Init System

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @03:20AM from the bofh-excuse-#3847-replacing-router-os dept.

An anonymous reader writes Release Candidate One of OpenWRT 14.07 "Barrier Breaker" is released. Big for this tiny embedded Linux distribution for routers in 14.07 is native IPv6 support and the procd init system integration. The native IPv6 support is with the RA and DHCPv6+PD client and server support plus other changes. Procd is OpenWRT's new preinit, init, hotplug, and event system. Perhaps not too exciting is support for upgrading on devices with NAND, and file system snapshot/restore so you can experiment without fear of leaving your network broken. There's also experimental support for the musl standard C library.

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Re:Will it run on my WRT54G? by Albanach · 2014-07-15 03:55 · Score: 2, Interesting

Presumably people need to know version number. I think one of the big problems with the original wrt54g is network throughput. With cable services regularly hitting 50Mbps+ mine can't really cope - even on the wired connections.
So, a question for those of you running openWRT or similar, which not too expensive router would you recommend to replace my decade old wrt54G?